virus update scripts.

[Julian Field]

At 19:56 03/09/2003, you wrote:
>Hey all, a couple things here.  First is with the mcafee-autoupdate
>script in the latest release.  What is this extra.dat file it tries to
>download and complains about when it's not there?

I'll leave that one to Tony Finch as he wrote that script.

>   Second, there is a
>problem with the update_virus_scanners on Solaris.  The grep you have
>uses the -e flag, and unless you happen to have /usr/xpg4/bin first in
>your path you'll be out of luck.  I've fixed this by adding the
>following right below the LOCKFILE declaration:
>
>OS=`uname`
>if [ ${OS} = SunOS ]; then
>   echo "Found OS"
>   GREP=/usr/xpg4/bin/grep
>else
>   GREP=grep
>fi
>
>And then changing the subsequent grep to ${GREP}.  Adding this should
>fix Solaris systems without breaking any systems that aren't already broken.

Good idea.


>--
>Thanks,
>Bob Jones

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